Tuesday, January 4, 2011

National Poll

We're doing our first national 2012 poll of the year this weekend. As always we will test Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich against Barack Obama as well as a 'bonus Republican.' We always take your suggestions and then do a vote on who to include as the extra Republican, the only rule is that we won't repeat anyone more than once every six months so that rules out Jan Brewer, Chris Christie, Glenn Beck, and Marco Rubio for January. Beyond that fire away and we'll pick the finalists tomorrow.

Any other good- and especially unique- question suggestions for the national poll would be much appreciated as well.

How about John McCain. He obviously won't run, but it's a nice bench-mark. Well known, sometimes seen as moderate conservative... hard to envision them coming up with someone better than he was in 08'.

Rudy Giuliani is one of the few potential 2012 candidates with sufficient name recognition to render a relevant poll result this far out; and unlike '08 when he was competing for votes with McCain, the socially moderate former NYC mayor would have little to no competition in the GOP outfield from left to center field.

I second Rudy Giuliani. He's the only guy from the 2008 field who hasn't been tested by PPP so far. I do think he deserves to be polled, even if he doesn't get the top vote. Maybe switch him for Newt or just add him?

It'll be interesting to see if a social moderate and fiscal conservative can do against Obama. Also, Giuliani has name rec that most other choices just won't have.

John Boehner. His name will be constantly in the news in the next 2 days, so he'd likely have higher name rec than T-Paw, Daniels, Perry, etc. If y'all don't test him for Pres, it would still be good to see how his favorablility ratings are going into his speakership.

The last general election poll of Ron Paul vs. Barack Obama, from Rasmussen, had Obama edging out Paul by a one-point margin: 41% to 40%. Would be interesting to see those results either confirmed or denied by a different pollster.

I want to see Ron Paul polled - we have almost no data on him in the general. You can probably figure out my political orientation too now, but I think it would be interesting to add "libertarian" to the "liberal/moderate/conservative" question, and see what the results are. My other request would be to test Clinton as the Democrat.

I still like the 'metapoll' question, asking about opinions on the political polling industry in general.

As a 'bonus Republican,' how about The Governator? I know Ah-nold isn't constitutionally eligible to run, but he's got pretty much universal name recognition, was about as moderate as a Republican gets these days (thanks to avoiding the primary his first time), and still has a lot of appeal nationally for his movie career.

When you do polls, you include additional people with the big four. They all get scraps. Perhaps you could do a poll that only includes people other than the big 4. There may be no dark horse, but you'd find out if there was one who it could be.

Would be interested in seeing a Third Party/Independent question, either attached to a particular hypothetical candidate (eg Bloomberg, although this might not be his month), or just a generic "Independent." Also like the suggestion above for the "Sevond Choice" question.

"Would be interested in seeing a Third Party/Independent question, either attached to a particular hypothetical candidate (eg Bloomberg, although this might not be his month), or just a generic "Independent.""

We have polled both Ron Paul and Mike Bloomberg as independents against Obama and Romney in the past, and it only helped Obama.

Let's be different for, VICE President: either Mike Huckabee, or Amb John Bolton, or Sir Rudy Guiliana. Now let's really be different former President G.W. Bush. President's can only serve 2 terms, but can become V.P. with someone else as President. Would love input and views!